Word: weaponeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think you are shooting at Elliott Roosevelt with a shotgun and Mr. Hughes might get hurt in the process. He [Flanagan] told me: 'We are shooting at him with a cannon.' He may have said a rifle or some other one-bullet weapon. What he was trying to convey was that it wasn't a scattergun they were using...
...started into the house after her. She became hysterical with fright and began firing. Anne had never fired a weapon before in her life. I know she did not intend to kill my father, because she loved him as we all did. She would not have intentionally killed even to save her own life...
...anti-Semitism were in the news. A Northampton magistrate heard it said that Henry James Cumberpatch, a cinema doorman, "affected by the news from Palestine, took a revolver and went out into the street-quite wrongheadedly -to wreak vengeance upon some innocent Jew." Cumberpatch was charged with using the weapon as a club to beat one Dan Cipin, tailor...
...Roosevelt will in time be envoked by aspiring Democrats with the same reverence that Republicans use in referring to Lincoln. By attempting to discredit the late President through his son, Brewster's probe may have the effect of delaying the day when the Roosevelt myth becomes an effective political weapon. That, and little more...
...Hopeful & Affirmative." He has time for only one thing: to hack at the wilderness, to forge the weapon. David Lilienthal is sure that the U.S. can produce the weapon. But he is also "hopeful and affirmative" that reason will prevail, despite "iron heads and iron curtains," and that the weapon will not be needed. If he is wrong, the U.S. can look forward to an atomic arms race that will plunge the U.S. into an even deeper jungle. If he is right, the U.S. will traverse at least the wilderness' first range...